Night People Are At A Higher Risk For Deadly Diseases, Study Finds

Trending News: How Being A Night Person Might End Up Killing You

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Do you wake up every morning and immediately hit the snooze button? Do you sip your coffee day after day, resenting the world for being built for morning people?

If so, then you're probably a night person. Also, you're right — it is a morning person's world.

Work starts early, so you need to go to bed early. If you don't start switching things up, you might be risking your life.

A massive U.K. study of 433, 268 adults looked into the health of morning people and night people.

Researchers asked Brits aged 38-73 to put themselves into one of four categories: “definitely a morning person," “more a morning person than evening person," “more an evening than a morning person" or “definitely an evening person.” The researchers took some samples and followed up again an average of 6.5 years later.

The results did not look good for night owls. The researchers found that “definite evening types” were 10% more likely to die during the study period than "definite morning types." What's more, evening types were at a higher risk of diabetes, psychological and neurological disorders, as well as respiratory and gastrointestinal/abdominal disorders.

Kristen Knutson, one of the study's authors, says the reason for this result is that night owls are trying to live in an early bird's world.

“What we think might be happening is, there’s a problem for the night owl who’s trying to live in the morning lark world,” Knutson said in a press release. “This mismatch between their internal clock and their external world could lead to problems for their health over the long run, especially if their schedule is irregular.”